Book Excerpt: 'The Parallel Apartments' by Bill Cotter

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March 14, 2014

Bill Cotter's new novel, "The Parallel Apartments," features a cast of misfits who end up in Austin, hurtling toward their individual calamities - and each other. Cotter will sign and discuss the novel at 7 p.m. March 28 at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet; 713-523-0701 or brazosbookstore.com.

"In 1968, as a junior in high school, Livia had known four things about Burt Moppett: that he was the guy who'd nearly been a mass-killing victim when he was fifteen; that he was dreamy without seeming to realize it (which just made him all the dreamier); that he led a local band, Ye Moppe Hedds, that was based on the 13th Floor Elevators formula, a sound at odds with the prevailing Austin scene; and, last, that she was secretly falling in love with him"